Kenneth L. Creal, CPA
- Graduate of the University of Southern California - Bachelor of Science - Business Administration with a major in accounting in January 1975.
- Senior Auditor - Big Eight Firm responsible for all facets of audit engagements including planning, supervision and financial reporting - 1977.
- Licensed Certified Public Accountant in California - 1978.
- Offered expert opinion testimony or reports in more than 100 cases involving the economic damages in wrongful termination cases, business litigation, shareholder and partner disputes, wage & hour claims, employee commission disputes, and embezzlements. Also provided reports in cases involving fraudulent conveyances, loan sharking, securities fraud, and the application of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.
- Provided expert damage analyses in more than twenty-five wage & hour class action lawsuits involving more than 25,000 employees, as well as a number of individual wage & hour claims.
- Testified in several binding arbitrations where class action awards were in excess of $25 million and in cases involving publicly traded companies.
- Current areas of practice - accounting, taxation, and litigation support services. Clients include construction contractors, escrow trust companies, school districts, radio broadcasting, manufacturing, wholesale, retail sales, service, technology, construction, and real estate partnerships and brokerage offices.
- Testified on numerous occasions before the Superior Court of the State of California in the counties of Los Angeles, Orange, Kern, Santa Barbara, San Diego, and Ventura, as well as Arizona Superior Court in Maricopa County, Arizona. Also testified as an expert in U.S. District Court - Central and Southern Districts.
- Served as a court-appointed referee in business litigation in Ventura County. Served as a joint expert in a wage & hour class action in Ventura County.
- Guest lecturer at the 2007 Vermont State Auditor's conference on the topic of forensic accounting, and recently lectured at Chapman University School of Law in its L.L.M. program. Passed all four parts of the CPA exam at first sitting.
- Worked with the Los Angeles and Ventura County District Attorney's Offices, California Department of Corporations, the National Association of Securities Dealers, various police departments, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, Ventura County Sheriff's Department, and the California State Attorney General's Office in connection with criminal prosecution to retrieve embezzled or misappropriated funds in a number of forensic accounting cases.
- Attended more than 1,300 hours of courses offered by the California State Society of Certified Public Accountants and other professional continuing education organizations. Curriculum has included litigation support, forensic accounting and fraud auditing, community property law, business valuation, real estate taxation, accounting and taxation matters.